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   smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:18:28 JST smellsofbikes

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   • rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

   @GustavinoBevilacqua I had a coworker who is as unwise as I am, and we'd take off in a 60mph wind day and ride right into it until we were physically unable to continue, and then coast back. I have several local records on a bike tracking website because I averaged just shy of 100 km/h on the way back.

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     smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:18:31 JST smellsofbikes

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     If you look at wind records for this area over the last 100 years, getting >80mph winds used to be a once every 25 years event, and only just outside Boulder on one ridge. Now it's something that happens multiple times a year across a much broader area. This is the first time I remember seeing a prediction of gusts over 100mph for the area I live.

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     rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua (gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:18:31 JST rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

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     @smellsofbikes

     A bicycle tour would require a very planned path, like running a sailboat.

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     smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:18:32 JST smellsofbikes

     It's extremely windy outside, and they're forecasting up to 100mph gusts across the whole metro area. After the Marshall Fire in 2021, where several fires, one possibly from a downed powerline, swept through the western suburbs of Denver, driven by 70mph winds, it appears that the power company may be cutting power to some of the area, including where I live. This'll be interesting. Right now it sounds like a jet aircraft is running at idle just over the hill.